Many academic library mission statements include the phrase, “students, faculty, and staff” when referencing the populations that they serve, but how active are we really at reaching out to non-library staff members at our ...

An adaptive optical music recognition system is being developed as part of an experiment in creating a comprehensive framework of tools to manage the workﬂow of large scale digitization projects. This framework will support ...

In many ways, digital astronomy is at the forefront of issues related to data curation, given the existing experience with generating large amounts of data in raw form, and significant quantities of derived data in processed ...

Many institutional repositories have pursued a mixed metadata environment, relying on description by multiple workflows. Strategies may include metadata converted from other systems, metadata elicited from the document ...

The Roman de la Rose Digital Library (the Rose) is a joint project between the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris.
The project began in 1996 with the ...

Shed the librarian stereotype of copyright whistleblower! Turn fearful faculty members into empowered copyright role models. When a copyright policy or department does not exist, apply our three step process for shifting ...

This essay weighs the notion that Web-based tag libraries represent the fifth generation of computer languages.
A brief survey of the history of computer languages is provided as is an indication of why it is useful to ...

Is your institution using social media? Are you concerned about its value, utility, and time commitment? This session will share best practices for purposefully using social media, how to measure its impact, and lessons ...

Astronomy is similar to other scientific disciplines in that scholarly publication relies on the presentation and interpretation of data. But although astronomy now has archives for its primary research telescopes and ...

The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University redesigned its web site in 2004 as part of its transition to a database-driven site controlled by a content management system. While most organizations today perform ...